at long last, my project for searching youtube captions/transcripts is available publicly!
https://j2transcripts.org
i downloaded subtitles from every video in the playlist by Emily Kitchen, Every Jared & Jensen Panel (up to date 2026) and all of @detailtilted videos which have full and correct captions. current total is 591 transcripts.
you can search exact phrases by "search phrase in quotes", if you use multiple words not in quotes, it will only return things with every word in your search.
after you search, on the right under the three line button, you can open the filters. i labeled panels that were jared and jensen only as j2, their respective solo panels and everything else falls under others; which may include j2 as well or just one of them. once you click through to a panel, there's tags which includes the year, the con and the people.
i also include an embedded youtube video that the transcript came from. recommend find in page/ctrl-f if you're looking for a specific phrase/word because they often aren't super easy to read due to being largely based on the auto-generated captions (which are getting better all the time but a con panel environment isn't always great audio)
the numbers are the timestamps, so this one for example, you can go to the 6 minute mark in the video to find it.
for the case of gayled_it's videos, i fortunately downloaded the transcripts before her account got zapped so they are in here!
the gayle's archive link will take you to the relevant folder on the google drive that Kanata set up which an archive of all of her videos that we could track down (with approval from gayle), link to the drive in their twitter bio, also here. i preserved the original youtube link so you can use it in the wayback machine on archive.org as well, if needed/desired.
this is primarily for searching the transcripts, but it also serves kind of as a way to find videos in an organized fashion with the consistent tags for the cons, the people and years. hopefully it's useful on both fronts!
i'm working with @j2wiki on also combining their archive of transcriptions into this project, which are complete/readable. i'll keep everyone updated on that as it goes.
if you have any comments/questions/problems, feel free to send me a dm, ask or leave a comment. everything is open. :)
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